- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:59:52 +0000
- To: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> >In the first place, even in the absence of explicit user choice, the > >browser already has a clue based on the language set in the operating > >system and desktop. > > > >In the second place (and in the real world), ISPs and system > >administrators will pre-configure language preferences to local > >norms on behalf of users. Browsers do need to get better at presenting this choice to people, and better at allowing people to create user stylesheets and a whole bunch of features that are user-configurable. > My downstairs neighbor, who is Mexican, never had a clue she could set her > *keyboard* to use Spanish instead of Dutch. She shares the computer with > her daughter who is more fluent in Dutch than in Spanish. Even if they know > they can set the browser to a language preference - which would they > choose? Their browser certainly doesn't have a clue what their preferences > are. I would imagine that she would use es-MX, es-*, nl and her daughter would use nl, es-MX, es-*. Once this had been set up it should just be a matter of which log-in the are using. It's setting it up in the first place that needs improvement from the browser manufacturers. -- Jon Hanna <http://www.hackcraft.net/> "…it has been truly said that hackers have even more words for equipment failures than Yiddish has for obnoxious people." - jargon.txt
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